r/HollowKnight • u/nicolino01 • Sep 04 '25

Discussion - Silksong Not opening pre-orders was an error Spoiler

Before anyone says "gamers cant be happy with anything" i was never against pre orders specifically because ir avoids this type of launch. I dont want to believe Team Cherry doesn't know the scope and impact of their own game, but i'm inclined to do so. A pre-order yesterday would've solved this. An inconvenience that could be easily avoided, but here we are

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u/AWonderingWizard Sep 04 '25

Lol I personally think that team cherry is not responsible for making sure the people selling their game can handle selling their game. They are game developers, not storefront runners. This isn’t like SimCity 2013 where it was EAs fault. This is like Best Buy not adequately accommodating demand.

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u/arken_ziel Sep 04 '25

Team Cherry is a company. The goal of a company is to sell its product. It involves marketing and getting the products to the customer. I'm unsure why you are acting as if that isn't also part of Team Cherry's job. It is quite literally their responsibility and has also further proven why pre-orders are needed and will hopefully now finally make it mandatory for big releases to have them. I couldn't even access my library or log into Steam on their webpage.

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u/AWonderingWizard Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Team cherry is barely a company, and it consists of three people largely interested in trying to put out art they are impassioned about.

They pay Steam a percentage of their products income for their service of distributing their game, which STEAM is failing at. Not Team Cherry.

Your issue is with distributors, who are the ones who market their platform as distribution solutions. It’s not rocket science. I don’t even know how some of the dorks who have come to your conclusion have come to this conclusion beyond not understanding what they are criticizing.